Hungry After Dark: Night Eating Syndrome Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe night eating syndrome. Many went years thinking they were just snackers until a partner, a doctor, a nurse or a video at two in the morning gave the pattern a name. The writers include a ward nurse and a paramedic on nights, a long-haul trucker with type 2 diabetes, a chef who never ate before last orders, a solicitor billing in six-minute blocks, a retired plumber widowed four years, a pastor's wife, a carer for a mother with dementia, and a mother who found wrappers under her daughter's bed. They write from Dunedin to Lagos, Bengaluru, Durban and Port of Spain. Triggers they describe include shift work, menopause, quitting smoking, grief, a move abroad, working from home, a gastric sleeve and years of dieting by day. Treatments that appear include food diaries, regular meals and breakfast, CBT, a light box in a Minnesota winter, an antidepressant, relaxation exercises and a sleep study that also found apnoea. One was first told simply to stop eating after seven. Outcomes are mixed and the book says so: some sleep through most nights, a writer relapsed after redundancy, another found the tablets helped only partly, and several are still working on it.

Who it's for

For anyone who finds themselves in the kitchen long after midnight and is not sure what to call it, and for the partners, parents and friends who have heard the fridge door.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 283 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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